Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part III

Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton

No. 658.]

Department of State, Washington, September 20, 1864.

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 23d of August, No. 527, which relates to the return of the Tribunal of Commerce of Boulogne in regard to the disposition of the confederate ship Rappahannock.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

William L. Dayton, Esq., &c., &c., &c.